notes from preliminary meeting

A brief history of the group from AMC:

Public outcomes as a research forum as opposed to an exhibition

AIR - Brooke, Beatriz, Jamie (Social Sculpture Commision - LMCC
Graffitti Research Lab - open cities exhibition (outcome)
Steve Lambert

Sustainability Group set up at that time too

Meetings is the standard format, but anything is possible.

Excursions - visit locations at other parts of the city

Andrea Polli used the group as a platform for speaker series

Design for Social Change came out of open culture and urban research, school of tactical culture - lots of external people involved

Initial Ideas:

Elastic City - artist led tours through different urban conditions

Once a month one person organizes a tour

Speaker series

Build "ownership" internally first

Themes:

 Ewaste, recycled materials, excess (Trash Track, Laura kurgan project?

Water rights - environmental, mining rights, material rights, finance, "gold bars"

Revitalizing public space

Underused spaces that could become public - how community gardens came to be

Unclaimed (vacant) spaces becoming gardens (596acres.org

Million inches project (Detroit) selling sq inches of real estate - Loveland Technologies

Detroit

Embedded sensor networks - bridges, buildings, streets, sidewalks - What is a sensor?

Urban foraging - Wildman Steve Brill

Site-specific urban/virtual spaces

Outcomes:

Website? Research Forum - notes, focuses within research group

Excursions (documentation) - each of us organizes one

Public seminar w/ invited guests

Sharing readings in history/theory of cities - organize a reading group

Use #occupywallstreet as site for meetings

Public space vs commons

Compile map/database of locative/AR platforms - betaville

Cultural tours

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Organize an excursion as a form of introduction

Meeting time: every other week Thursday at 2pm - 3:30pm